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  • The prince's eyes shone with amusement at her brashness but lingered a bit too long on her body.†   (source)
  • Bold and brash, stupidly defiant, just as inconvenient.†   (source)
  • A former stewardess, Barbara Wiggin was a brash, backslapping redhead; Mr. Wiggin called her "Barb," which was how she introduced herself in various charity-inspired phone calls.†   (source)
  • I have to admit that what I initially found attractive in Ted were precisely the things that made him different from my brothers and the Chinese boys I had dated: his brashness; the assuredness in which he asked for things and expected to get them; his opinionated manner; his angular face and lanky body; the thickness of his arms; the fact that his parents immigrated from Tarrytown, New York, not Tientsin, China.†   (source)
  • They were seniors, getting close to graduation, full of both brash confidence and hidden fears.†   (source)
  • I'm still hungry," she says, looking out the window, at the restaurants still open at this hour—brashly lit diners with specials scrawled on paper plates, cheap calzone places with sawdust-coated floors, the type of restaurants she would never think to enter normally but which look suddenly enticing.†   (source)
  • The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence.†   (source)
  • The computer continued, brash and cheery as if it were selling detergent.†   (source)
  • The snowmobile coughed into brash, choppy life.†   (source)
  • A brash elven youth hunted down a dragon, as he would a stag, and killed it.†   (source)
  • There was never a King Léopold, no brash Stanley, bury them, forget.†   (source)
  • He is brash and impulsive, talkative and somewhat crude in speech and manner.†   (source)
  • "There have been no illnesses associated with this product?' the company's press release brashly asserted.†   (source)
  • In Andy's view, I was self-possessed to a fault, I was way too brash and I was an inflexible contrarian, always spouting opinions.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he understood why Stilgar had warned him once about brash young men who danced and played with these monsters, doing handstands on their backs, removing both hooks and replanting them before the worm could spill them.†   (source)
  • For that a man needed to be free and easy with people, to be brash, to know how to grease a palm or two.†   (source)
  • And he wondered what Rufus must have looked like in those days, with all his bright, untried brashness, and all his hopes intact.†   (source)
  • If we keep him on the ward I am certain his brashness will subside, his self-made rebellion will dwindle to nothing, and"-she smiles, knowing something nobody else does-"that our redheaded hero will cut himself down to something the patients will all recognize and lose respect for: a braggart and a blowhard of the type who may climb up on a soapbox and shout for a following, the way we've all seen Mr. Cheswick do, then back down the moment there is any real danger to him personally."†   (source)
  • Maybe Aunt May knew something, because Baden didn't come in brashly or, conversely, like he was trying to hide.†   (source)
  • Then there were all these traders, these brash, young New Yorkers in their twenties and thirties, and I looked at the room and there were groups of two and three, and there was not a single group that did not include members of both sides.†   (source)
  • The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and may be it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you in the very quick and quiet way that she had always said it.†   (source)
  • The Americans would not be so brash.†   (source)
  • I have no use for demigod boys—always so full of themselves, so brash and destructive.†   (source)
  • Acey's ascent, Acey's name in the air, her brash talent and sense of freedom and her self-asserting manner and how she wants it all and'll probably get it and dancing sort of striped in the lights with her jacket flying open and the music shaking the walls.†   (source)
  • Mortenson asked, knowing that a nurmadhar's daughter would always be in demand, especially a pretty girl of seventeen, and a Balti husband might not support his brash young wife's ambitions.†   (source)
  • I'm accustomed to his brash overconfidence.†   (source)
  • For the last few days, he's grown more and more brash, reckless even.†   (source)
  • He drove with a kind of brashness and cockiness.†   (source)
  • I'd never met anyone with Emma's brash confidence.†   (source)
  • Strange dissonant notes thrown together, wanting resolution, and somehow they captured America and Science and all that was bold and brash and daring and exciting about America (or at least the way she imagined America to be).†   (source)
  • He was brash, loud, smart, fearless, and could be very intimidating in court and out.†   (source)
  • I didn't mean it to sound brash; I just didn't really understand what the reporter expected us to do about how big the American boys were.†   (source)
  • The brashness of what he was about to attempt was on his side.†   (source)
  • Chapter 15 Then I was awake and not awake, sitting bolt upright in bed and trying to peer through the sick gray light as I sought the meaning of the brash, nerve-jangling sound.†   (source)
  • He had often met girls of the lower classes, who had put on a brash little act, pretending to look up to him, spilling crude flattery for an obvious purpose; he had neither liked nor resented them; he had found a bored amusement in their company and he had granted them the status of his equals in a game he considered natural to both players involved.†   (source)
  • "We have not come here to speak of Mr. Wilde's misfortunes," Felicity says hastily, and far too rudely, but Dr. Van Ripple shows no sign of being affronted by her brashness.†   (source)
  • In this silent room (with its own unheard hum of fridge, fluorescent light) there are these frogs loud as river, gruntings, the whistle of other birds brash and sleepy, but in that night so modest behind the peacocks they were unfocussed by the brain —nothing more than darkness, all those sweet loud younger brothers of the night.†   (source)
  • Taking frequent trips to the brashness of Chicago to see children and grandchildren always energized me.†   (source)
  • Most of the candy stripe girls are outgoing and talkative and even a little waywardly brash, which is naturally why they do the work.†   (source)
  • He was a brash and hasty man in all other areas of life, a man who coasted through stop signs without so much as a toe on the brake, a man who bolted his food and guzzled his drinks and ordered a stammering child to "come on, spit it out," but when it came to constructing a house he had all the patience in the world.†   (source)
  • Baxter Brasher, a fellow member of White's Ferry Road Church and an executive of Howard Brothers Discount Stores, where Kay worked, asked me to take him duck-hunting.†   (source)
  • He borrowed $25,000 from the bank with the help of Baxter Brasher, an executive at Howard Brothers Discount Stores, and purchased a lathe for $24,985.†   (source)
  • She was brash, unpredictable, and sometimes uncomfortably outspoken.†   (source)
  • P. D. asked this brashly, in complete contrast to his mild and meek manner with the officer.†   (source)
  • A first-year man, brash in his ignorance, might ask, "What year did Black win the championship?"†   (source)
  • Randy was a brash, witty kid, fifteen years old and six feet four inches tall.†   (source)
  • The son of an unpopular father, a renegade in his party and rather brash for a freshman Senator, John Quincy neither sought nor was offered political alliances or influence.†   (source)
  • In these circumstances, it would take a brash young politician, such as I was in 1949, to proclaim that the Communists are our enemies.†   (source)
  • As he drove the little Ford safely to its garage, he remembered for the first time in years when he was young and brash, a student in New York, and the shriek and horror and unholy smother of the subway had its original meaning for him as the lilt and expectation of love.†   (source)
  • I learned that when I was a brash young j. o., from a salty trooper old enough to be my mother.†   (source)
  • The brash iniquity of the proposal tempted and amused the chaplain for a second or two.   (source)
  • Astoundingly, the eighty-one-year-old man took the brash twenty-four-year-old vagabonds advice to heart.   (source)
  • These days Roman teaches at Alaska Pacific University, in Anchorage, and enjoys statewide renown for a long, brash string of backcountry escapades: He has, among other feats, traveled the entire 1,000-mile length of the Brooks Range by foot and paddle, skied 250 miles across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in subzero winter cold, traversed the 700-mile crest of the Alaska Range, and pioneered more than thirty first ascents of northern peaks and crags.   (source)
  • "The same," I says, but couldn't say it pretty brash.   (source)
    brash = bold
  • When me and Jim heard that we didn't feel so brash as what we did before.   (source)
  • When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw; but I says, this ain't no time to be fooling around.   (source)
  • But not feeling brash.   (source)
  • Nothing too brash, mind you; I was too young for brashness.†   (source)
  • The most brash of peoples was seized by despair, fatalism, and fear.†   (source)
  • He poured himself a drink and paced the room, talking with too light, too brash a manner of gaiety.†   (source)
  • After I showed him how it was done, Brasher was even more impressed.†   (source)
  • Brasher asked me as he shuffled some papers on his desk.†   (source)
  • I asked Brasher, "How much do you want?"†   (source)
  • Young, brash, idealistic, always trying to help people out.†   (source)
  • She imagined him at thirty, a brash businessman, confident of his position in the world and with the ladies.†   (source)
  • Among the older members of the congregation—with whom the jocular Captain Wiggin and his brash wife were not an overnight success—there was a stewing anger, apparent in their frowns and scowls, as if the shameful pageant they had just witnessed were the rector's idea of something "modern."†   (source)
  • Things glittered rather than shone; there was bleached wood and brass trim and brash glass everywhere, and a great deal of lamination.†   (source)
  • This was a password: it meant that Winifred was an arriviste — new money, brash and vulgar — and that I should be standing up for some other set of values.†   (source)
  • With a brash, jarring toll, the bells sounded again, filling the chamber with a swarm of angry echoes.†   (source)
  • He conducts himself the same way, in public or not-a bit brash yet charming, smooth yet easily agitated, a man who takes control of any situation the moment he enters it, even parties thrown by our closest friends!†   (source)
  • And there are plenty in London who'd rather see the brash Felicity Worthington under her father's control."†   (source)
  • He was loud, brash, divisive, and was proving to be a highly effective race baiter in a city that had produced many.†   (source)
  • …the car parked next to an empty lot, with Nick taking the keys, and it was still there the next day They got a set of plates from Vito's uncle's car that was in traction, more or less, for the winter, and they exchanged these for the original plates and drove mainly at night because the brashness had given way to a responsible sense of ownership and they went only limited distances because it seemed safer and they didn't have money to spend on gas and there was nowhere to go anyway.†   (source)
  • Ever since Admiral Yamamoto's transport plane had been ambushed and destroyed by American fighter planes some eighteen months before, the general mood and morale, if still hopeful, had certainly not been as ebullient and brash as it was in the high, early times of the war, when the Burma Road fell, and Mandalay.†   (source)
  • And behind the film of frost etching the glass I saw two brashly painted plaster images of Mary and Jesus surrounded by dream books, love powders, God-Is-Love signs, money-drawing oil and plastic dice.†   (source)
  • Lillian's head was poised to bow in greeting, with the tentative hint of a smile on her lips, half-timid, half-brash.†   (source)
  • I went back to Brasher and told him it would cost about $25,000 for me to get into the duck-call business.†   (source)
  • I laid that piece of paper down on Campbell's desk just like Brasher told me to do and answered, "There's my collateral."†   (source)
  • Brasher had noticed a lot of men and boys asking me questions about hunting, fishing, and duck calls before and after church, and he was curious to find out what all the fuss was about.†   (source)
  • Brasher asked.†   (source)
  • She was brash and buoyant, bobbing like a brightly colored cork in the maelstrom, unsinkable and unafraid.†   (source)
  • And if the first-year man was brash enough to persist, "Why not, if he's so good?" the answer would be, "Old Man Satan never had to win a title to prove how good he was."†   (source)
  • This caused an audible rumble from the crowd and for a few dramatic moments it looked as though a band of men were going to pursue the brash thief through the graveyard.†   (source)
  • You is so brash sometimes, Miss Scarlett.†   (source)
  • Most of them were young, brash, competent, shifty-eyed and shook hands limply.†   (source)
  • He wasn't all brashness, however, and headlong despair, Simon.†   (source)
  • But I took one drink and left, and walked on where there weren't any more houses, just brash and oak tangles with here and there a pine rising, and occasionally an open patch of ground with a gray shack.†   (source)
  • True, there were a few girls there that Saturday…bold, brash ones, too developed for their age; girls who talked loud and horseplayed around with the boys--girls whom the neighbors prophesied would come to no good.†   (source)
  • It wasn't hide-bound and stick-in-themuddish like the older towns and it had a brash exuberance that matched her own.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she had been too brash.†   (source)
  • He must not be too brash in stepping out into any road, either.†   (source)
  • An interesting fellow, brash and melancholy at the same time.†   (source)
  • Meantime you better avoid doing anything brash.†   (source)
  • It was a brash baritone, but he found it lovely today, and his own singing inspired him more and more.†   (source)
  • When it was about breast high, she glanced back toward shore: a bald man in a monocle and a pair of tights, his tufted chest thrown out, his brash navel sucked in, was regarding her attentively.†   (source)
  • Trouble with Silzer is, he's too brash— shoots off his mouth too much—likes to hear himself talk.†   (source)
  • Clyde was thinking as she talked how different she was from Hortense Briggs or Rita, or any other girl he had ever known—so much more simple and confiding—not in any way mushy as was Rita, or brash or vain or pretentious, as was Hortense, and yet really as pretty and so much sweeter.†   (source)
  • Brash curiosity for a spokesman of a social class that is itself the agent of the freedom that has ruined the world.†   (source)
  • And they rush forward as best they can, with brash cries and nightmarishly heavy feet, clods of earth clinging leadenly to crude boots.†   (source)
  • They hurl themselves down before projectiles howling toward them, only to leap up and rush on, shouting courage in brash, young voices— they have not been hit.†   (source)
  • It had been a prank, a rather brash one, and in Joachim's eyes there was probably a trace of treachery and malice about it—Hans Castorp was well aware of that.†   (source)
  • He did not, we repeat, let it alter his honestly deferential, if at times slightly brash sympathy for a man of suture—simply because that man shared traveling expenses with a lady from whom Hans Castorp had borrowed a pencil on Mardi Gras evening.†   (source)
  • There were also other themes: Alpine dairy sheds, dewlapped cows standing or lying in sun-drenched pastures, a plucked hen among vegetables with its twisted neck dangling over one side of a table, floral arrangements, local mountain folk, and so on—all of them painted in a kind of brisk, dilettante style, with brash clumps of color that often looked as if they had been squeezed onto the canvas directly from the tube and must have taken a long time to dry.†   (source)
  • Then he would go for a swim, and a lifeguard would blow on his little horn to warn those brash enough to venture beyond the first breaking wave, or merely to get too close to its onrushing storm—and even the final thrust of the cataract was like the slap of a giant paw against the back of his neck.†   (source)
  • True, when you listened to the director talk you might sometimes think he had a temperature—there was something not quite right about the way he spoke, it sounded so brash and jovial and easygoing, but there was also something strange about it, something overwrought, especially when you considered those purplish cheeks and watery eyes, which looked as if he were still weeping for his wife.†   (source)
  • When talking with adults, Earl often becomes brash and combative.†   (source)
  • …Charybdis.
    But I held on, dead set …. waiting for her
    to vomit my mast and keel back up again—
    Oh how I ached for both! and back they came,
    late but at last, at just the hour a judge at court,
    who's settled the countless suits of brash young claimants,
    rises, the day's work done, and turns home for supper-

    that's when the timbers reared back up from Charybdis.
    I let go—I plunged with my hands and feet flailing,
    crashing into the waves beside those great beams
    and…†   (source)
  • Or else,
    for the way you talk, these young men will hale you
    up and down the halls by your hands or feet
    until you're skinned alive!"
    Naked threats—
    but the rest were outraged, even those brash suitors.
    One would say to another, "Look, Antinous,

    that was a crime, to strike the luckless beggar!"
    "Your fate is sealed if he's some god from the blue."
    "And the gods do take on the look of strangers
    dropping in from abroad—"
    "Disguised in every way
    as they roam and haunt our…†   (source)
  • …her beloved husband,
    till watchful Athena sealed her eyes with welcome sleep.
    And now the loyal swineherd had lifted up the bow,
    was taking it toward the king, when all the suitors
    burst out in an ugly uproar through the palace-

    brash young bullies, this or that one heckling,
    "Where on earth are you going with that bow?"
    "You, you grubby swineherd, are you crazy?"
    "The speedy dogs you reared will eat your corpse—"
    "Out there with your pigs, out in the cold, alone!"
    "If…†   (source)
  • …as a god!"
    With that he marched out of the sturdy house
    and went home to Piraeus, the host who warmed him in.
    Now all the suitors, trading their snide glances, started
    heckling Telemachus, made a mockery of his guests.
    One or another brash young gallant scoffed,
    "Telemachus, no one's more unlucky with his guests!"
    "Look what your man dragged in—this mangy tramp
    scraping for bread and wine!"
    "Not fit for good hard work,

    the bag of bones—"
    "A useless dead weight on the…†   (source)
  • Other, and less respectable contributions of the time are /brash/, /brainy/, /peart/, /locoed/, /pesky/, /picayune/, /scary/, /well-heeled/, /hardshell/ (/e. g./, Baptist), /low-flung/, /codfish/ (to indicate opprobrium) and /go-to-meeting/.†   (source)
  • So we poked along back home, and I warn't feeling so brash as I was before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame, somehow—though I hadn't done nothing.   (source)
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